Simon had his one month checkup yesterday. It went pretty well; he is growing appropriately (basically 75%ile across the board for height, weight and head circumference) and his pediatrician was pleased. She did think he had a bit of thrush and that he needs vitamin D supplements (don't know why she didn't tell us about this before; maybe it was because he was taking some formula which has vitamin D in it). He got his 2nd hepatitis B shot and did well (I'll never forget the look on his face, though; went from totally chill to very unhappy in one second, poor little guy). Next month he'll be getting the first round of a bunch of shots so we'll be ready for some extra fussiness. I have to keep reminding myself that he won't remember any of this, so I should stop stressing out every time he gets poked.
I've been trying to get him on a 3 hour schedule with some mixed success. One big plus these last few days is that we discovered he can indeed put himself to sleep in his crib (although he does cry for about 5-10 min before passing out), and sleep in his crib without too much fussing! Amazing! Before we tried it I totally thought he would be too young to fall asleep on his own and that he would cry forever and not get it. This is much better than what we were doing before, which is holding him and rocking him to sleep (which took forever and he would wake up as soon as we put him down).
We're still having a couple of issues with him sticking to a regular nap time during the day, though. He gets all revved up in the morning and won't take a good nap in the morning, leading a lot of fussing, which then ends up in a massive nap in the afternoon (he will sleep for 3 hours without waking up, and I have to wake him up to eat). This throws the whole schedule off. The last two nights he's done a good stretch from 8/9-12/1 but then after that it's kind of hit or miss. I think it's because in the middle of the night he has the tendency to fall asleep while eating and so he wakes up hungry an hour later. The conclusion of all this is that his sleep is still wonky and I'll have to work hard the next three weeks to make it better. Hopefully as he gets older it will also smooth out a lot more -- I suppose I shouldn't feel too much pressure at this point since he's only 4.5 weeks old.
One other thing we've noticed about Simon is that while he likes to sleep on his back, he very much prefers to sleep on the right side of his head. If we try to put him to bed with his head facing the other way he actually tosses and turns until he manages to flip his head back to the right side. I tried putting a small folded up blanket to turn his head the other way today during one of his naps and he was very unhappy. Hope he doesn't grow up with a deformed skull :(
to end on a light note - after his bath today Simon had a HUGE booger come out of his nostril. And by huge I mean as big as something that would come out of my nose :) Surprising that a big booger can come out of such a tiny nostril! He must have been really plugged up in there!
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